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Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
Interesting Bible Facts.

In the Bible the word Lord is found 1858 times, the word Jehovah 6855 times, and the word reverend but once, and that in the 9th verse of the cxith Psalm.
 The Sth verse of the cxvilth Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible. The 9th verse of the xiiith chapter of Esther is the longest verse. The 35th verse xith chapter of St. John is the shortest.
 In the cviith Psalm four verses are alike, the 9th, 10th, 21st and 31st. Each verse of the cxxxvith Psalm ends alike.
 No names or words with more than six syllables are found in the Bible.
 The xxxviith chapter of Isaiah and the xixth chapter of 2l Kings arc alike.
 The word girl occurs but once in the Bible, and that in the 3d verse and iiid chapter of Joel.
 There are found in both books of the Bible, g. 5s6, 4s3 letters, 773, 693 words, 31, ,373 verses, 11S9 chapters, and 6f books. Tle xxvith chapter of the Acts of the Apostles is the finest to read. Tne most beautiful chapter in the Bible is the xxiiid Psalm. Philadelphia Call.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
A Real Compliment,

While travelling through Nebraska, Muslin, the virtuoso, lounged into the smoking car to kill few ot the heavy moments incident to journey across the plains. He found countryman scraping a polka off the strings of fiddle. He played with the proud consciousness of a man who is master of his art.
 ''Let me play you something," said Musin,
 Without word, the fiddler handed the virtuoso his instrument. Putting the thing into at least a suggestion of tune, Muslin played touching cavatina, and then the Carnival of Venice," as arranged by Paganini.
 The player of the polkas and square dance music opened his mouth and ab- sorbed every note. When Muslin had fisished he handed the fiddle back to it's spellbound owner. The countryman shook his head. The brilliant notes of the Carnival" were still chasing each other in mad dance through his head.
 II don't want it." he said, laconical-
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with Lily's insensible form claspad close to bis brave heart. He had savet

with LIy's insensible form clasped close to his brave heart. He had savet her.
 Then, still in imminent danger, they remained clinging to the dismantled boat, until, as suddenly as it had fallen, the squall lifted, and welcome hail from the shore proclaimed that help was near at hand.
 Lily came to herself at last, to find that John was holding her fast, with her face close to his own.
 In an instant the memory of what had passed came back to her. She did not draw away, but raised her lustrous eyes to his as if to read his inmost thoughts; {; the cold cheek pressed itself closer against his own, while her arms wound themselves softly around his neck.
 "John--dear John" was all she said.
 And John knew that with the greatest peril the greatest blessing of his life had come to him; while Richard Blake, look ing on with pale, scowling face, com prehended clearly that Johns words had been prophetic when he had said, "Your chance will be gone"
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
An Electrical Baton.

Leading a chorus by electrical ap- paratus has been tried in Paris. The current is used in beating time for the chorus of an opera company while the singers are behind the scenes. An electrical baton, hung in a conspicuous place, is controlled by the foot of the leader of the orchestra, who has also in front of him small duplicate, by which he can see whether his foot is beating cor rect time. The electrical baton does not actually move in space, but it presents the appearance of doing SO. There are, in fact, two batons occupying different positions, which on being rovolved by the action of electro-magncts, present white and black faces alternately on the back ground. An optical illusion is thus produced exactly equivalent to the movement of a single white baton in the hands of leader. It is said that much greater precision is obtalned by this divice than where the time is beaten for the chorus by second leader behind the scenes.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
General Lees Hen.

In Longs life of Gen. Lee an interesting story of hen is told. A few chickens were once presented to the general. In the lot was laying hen whose life was spared. The hen accompanied the army to Gettysburg, riding in the baggage wagon, and after that battle was with the Confederates for nearly year. At last tho hen grew fat and lazy, and one day the steward, finding his supplies very low, and knowing that the general expected distinguished guest at dinner, killed the hen, and she was served up on the altar of hospitality. Gen. Lee was surprised to see so fine fowl set before him, but he little dreamed that his pei hen had been slaughtered. When the hen was missed, however, the steward had to confess that he had been placed in position like unto that of the boy who had to capture the ground hog. There was company for dinner and nc meat
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The Virginia Industries.

In talk the other day with cx--Gov- ernor Cameron of Virginia, he referred to two large indus .ries of his State by saying that Virginia raises more peanuts than wheat and that sumac gathering has assumed leading position as an industry. The sumac grows wild and is gathered by the colored people at a time of the year when they have nothing else to do. They pick the blossoms in great bags w oh they carry to the cities where the sumac is dried and pulverized for chemical and medicinal uses. Al Petersburg, Virginia, which is the centre of the sumac growth, the production amounts to a million dollars. - New York Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
The Dark Side of Dakota.

"No market no fuel, no water, no fruit, no demand for labor" These are enumerated by Kimball Oak.) corres- pondent of Farm and Preside as disad- vantages of that part of the Territory, which land-agents and railroad specula- tors have lauded to the detriment of many restless people who were induced to leave comparatively comfortable homes at the East: "A four years resi- dence here has enabled me to speak ad- visedly, and when said that not one who came here and depended on farm ing for an income but has gone down hill, speak the simple truth; those who came full-hornded and loaned their money, or invested it in stock, or went back to some reservation or isolated place and escaped taxation, have made money. Crops are short and prices low. Wheat, five to fifteen bushels per acre, 40 to AS cents; oats, fifteen to thirty five bushels, 15 to IS cents; corn of pre- VAoOS JCoAo AoAA3 Oue AVoe VI Ae AAOSS- bitten; flax, four to ten bushels per acre, 80 to 90 cents per bushel; milk, no sale; !; butter, 8 cents per pound; eggs, 5 cents per dozen; live stock, i 12 to 9 1-2 cents per pound. Now look on the other side: Soft coal, $s per ton; hard, SIS; dried fruits, 9 to 20 cents per pound, owing to quality and kind. The high price of fuel has driven even well-to-do people to the use of hay, corn-stalks, fax-straw, and through the summer season almost all residing in the rural districts have used cow-chips, which is a polite name for dry COW dung, for fuel. Add to this third of mans time for hauling water, and your readers will have something of a correct idea of the inconveniences and expenses of living in new country. might add that, with rare exceptions, it is impossible for laboring man to get employment"
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The Peasant and the RObber.

A peasant who was growing a fine crop of barley awoke one morning to find that the flood had entered his field and destroyed every stalk of his grain. Thereupon he began to tear his hair and lament, but stranger who came along tapped him on the shoulder and said:
 "Harkee, my friend, but you do not know of what you complain. Had your barley come to maturity and been sent to market, I should have waylald and robbed you of every dollar of the pro- ceeds." Whatever happens is for the best, even when the neighbours COW eats up our cabbages. es.-[Detroit Free Press.
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HUMOROUS.
The surest way to raise pigs is by tn

The surest way to raise pigs is by the tails.
 Speaking of anima Is, what does the catamount to2
 An unsteady man like an unsteady light, is apt to go out nights.
 The pugilist is the modern Shylock. He is always seeking pound of flesh.
 Although not talkative at all, the oys- ter is very pleasant companion at din- ner.
 The barber generally manages to make a living, even if he is always working at cut rates.
 Scientists believe it impossible for a man to have double. If this is 50 how can man be beside himself9
 A railway from Chicago direct to tho City of Mexico is projected. With a few more additional facilities for leaving the city life in Chicago will become bear able.
 Some young men of fashion have, it is said, lately adopted the plan of having their clothes made without pockets, and, as their tailors allegc, for the ''best pos sible reason"
 Merchant to his clerk-I am sorry cannot let you have your last months salary to-day, but since, as you very we'll know, time is money, will give you months vacation.
 Hungry Guest: ''How is this3 or dered a steak and a poached egg. sec the egg, but where is the steakW Table attendant: ''Dat's all right sab. Do steak am under de egg" ..
 It is astonishing how much scorn, in. dignation and contempt woman can put into two words. If you do not be- leve it just listen while she speaks of some one she dislikes as ''that man."
 ''There is more pleasure in giving than in receiving" was the proverb . mother was trying to instill into youth full mind. ''That's true about castor oil, mother," was the answer she got.
 'tDo you have damp sheetsG' said tho fussy old man at the hotel, securing . room. 'No," said the clerk, who want cd to be obliging, "but we can sprinkle lem for you if you like them that way" !"
 He-'I beg your pardon, miss, but don't admire your last name." She "Great heavens man, haven't l done everything in my power to change it7 Must l knock a man down with . | clubf"
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The Strides of Sanitary Science.

The development of sanitary science has advanced with rapid strides during the last three decades. Thirty years ago it scarcely had an existence. Our di- unfinished rate of mortality is due to a greater extent to this cause than to inn proved methods of treatment of diseases We put this out, not with the intention of sneering at the anxious and too often thankless work performed by our doc tors, but to accentuatc the fact that pre- ventive medicine is more powerful and far reaching in its effects than the en- deavor to cope with disease. Not only is ''prevention better than cure," but it is also easier.--[Saturday Review.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
Horse Racing In Persia.

S. G. w. Benjamin, late United States Minister to Persia says in an artlcle in the New York Star: In Persia, at least, the annual races are genuine godsend. Although given under royal auspices, these races are open to all alike; any one who pleascs can enter a racer, and all, from the mendicant to the Shah, may look on, putting in prac- tice the proverb that cat may look at the king. The streets are thronged with spectators as coach after coach wheels by to the races, attended by scores of mounted attendants in gorgeous liveries. The beautiful, piunacled gates of the city are black with nimblc urchins who have scaled the giddy heights to ~satch glimpse of the show. For once the strict court etiquette seems relaxed and sovereign and people meet on the same p!ane-,hat of common, a uni- versal enjoyment.
 The Persians are lively and mercurial like the Parisians, fond of splendor and display, and they will endure much from a ruler who fills their eyes with speetac- ular pageants. The occasion is rendered more brilliant and useful as we'll be- cause of the great military parade that is given on the final day of the races. For it serves to stimulate the esprit du corps of the troops and enables ono to firm an intelligible idea of the compost tion and discipline of the armies of the Shah at the present time. One secs there troops uniformed in semi-E pean style, and drilled in European tac- tics; and also irregular cavalry wearing the picturesque costumes of other days, with muskets seven feet long and spiked forks on which to rest them in action.
 Parks of modern, brcach-loading ar tillery are followed by batteries of small cannon, carried on camels and mules, from whose backs this quaint artillery is fired, a method that is not without value even now amid some of the fearfu mountain roads of Persia. The cavalry is very finely mounted, and for skill 1T evolutions or in keeping in the saddle cam ot be surpassed. A very odd fea- ture of this annual parade is the enor nous fl or elephant, which takes the lead with stately tread and covered witf gay caparisons. It reminds one of thu times long past when Darius and Chos- roes maintained whole ranks of elephants in the van of their victorious armies.
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Cloth Made of Bark.

The method of converting bark into interesting process, says the Chicago Tribune. Captain Storms possesses a strip of common bark, tibrous and woody, of which all the lower part has been moistened and beaten until it has spread itself out in to about two square yards of tough, leathery, flexible substance, some- thing like blacksmlth's apron. The natives do understand a kind of coarse, primitive weaving of the cotton fibre into a rough, canvas-like texture; but the bark cloth is the most easily made, and therefore the most in vogue. --[ Chi. es4o TNhpns.
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A Boston newspaper man ventured to inquire of a scavenger what became of the cast off boots and shoes he gathered from the gutters and other filthy places. -'Well," was the collectors answer, dwell, some on 'em goes for junk and some on lem goes for jelly" A vivid recollection of having eaten plenteously of the latter delicacy at his lunch but an hour or so before prevented the searcher for information from prosecuting his in- yeshgation any further.
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The American Baptist Missionary So- ciety has received intelligence of re- vival among the natives in the country between Banza Mauteke and Lukuugu.
 The revival started among some Lukun- gu carriers, who saw that some of the people, who had thrown away their idols,
 had not suffered any harm. They spread the news on their way home, and the missionaries-the Rev. Henry Richards and wife-were urged to make trip to Lukungu. They held meetings on the way, and converts came in by the hun- dred. A chief came to the preaching, and went home and burned his idols
 Converts to the number of over thou
 sand were received, and hundreds O
 wooden and rag idols were burned. Int missionaries are building chapel. The! have sent to England for corrugated iron, e the ants eat up the woodel posta. and the straw thatch rots about a x fast e it is put up. The attendance . tho church ssTvisss on Sundays is abou 100
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Money in Mud.

"You will never have clean streets in America" said an Italian gentleman in the Colonnade hotel yesterday, ''as long as you throw away the dirt. In Italy the cleaning of the streets is sold to tho highest bidder at public auction, and the man who gets the contract fairly scrapes tho streets to collect all the dirt he can. It is then taken to a factesy, where it is pressed into blocks which ars then sold for fertilizing purposes. You Americans do not seem to know that your street dirt is valuable. think if you would advertise you would ind some smart man who would bc glad to take ton years contract to clean your streets for nothing. He would get very rich. h."-TPhiladelphia Call.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23

Somebody has said that whenever a Chinaman attends Sunday school in this country he does it to learn to read Eng liah, curry favor and gain patronage from Americans. It looks that way sometimes. At least the cunning heath en is capable of turning Sunday school knowledge to good account. A de- scription of recent raid on a Chinese gambling den in New York says: In one place twenty men were at the table when the place was stormed, but when the officers got in there was nothing found to indicate gambling. The China. men each held Sunday school book, and were all singing the too familiar hymn, .'There's land that is fairel than day." You can't be arrested fo singing that. The places stormed re- sumed their games bimeby immediatel. after the officers retired.
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IL ia eafiuated that -thara many 'as 50, 900 suicides in Europe every year. The largest number of suicides in pro portion to the population take place in Paris; then come Vienna, Berlin, New York and London, in the order named. In Austria 1t has been noticed that young women of Slavonic nationality are more liable to suicidal impulses than German girls, and in Italy and France tAe number of female suicides is large than in Germany.
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Citizens of Pennsylvania, Connecticut and other states where Arbor Day has been instituted, are using their influence to get the legislatures of other Eastern states to legalize the day. Professor Brewer of Yale says there are three good reasons for an annual Arbor Day: '.It gives children good bit of natures teaching, it is the means of spreading wood growing in the state, and it beau- tifies the country" Professor Northrop thinks two days ought to be name l, one for the northern and the other for the southern section of this state.
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Why We Buttcr Bread.

Dr. John c. Vandervcer, ill the course of lecture on Food aud ,Stlmu ants, delivered in Brooklyn, said: Although bread contains an abundance of starchy and albuminous matters, it is deficient in fat. This is why our instinct leads us to use butter or some other fatty ma tcrial to make up the deficiency. Very few of my hearers, l venture to say, ever looked at it in this light before. Butter is generally considered luxury. It is an absolute necessity.
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4 Strange ExnerimeDt.

King James w. of Scotland is said to have ordered an experiment to be carried out which must be regarded as one of the strangest ever recorded. With a view to learn what was the original hu- man language, he had a dumb woman lodged on the Isle of Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, and two infants entrust- cd to her care. Oddly enough, the result was considered satisfactory. for in due course it was found that they spoke "very good Hebrew v- Little Folks.
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Rights of the Blind ill Streets.

The full bench of the Supreme Court has just sent down rescript in the case plaintiff, blind man, was walking down Bromfield street and fell down hatch : way left open by defendants. He brought suit and recovered damages. The defen- dants excepted, but the exceptions have now been overruled on the ground that it can't be laid down as a universal rule that it would be negligence for blind man to walk the streets of Boston unat tended. .-T Boston Traveller.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23

There was . missionary conference in Eufaula, Indian territory, recently, and an appeal was made to the Indian con. sregation for money to send the gospel to those that had it not. There were 300 persons in the congregation, and the collection amounted to $3S0, many of the Indians giving all the money they had with them, and some of the girls throwing bracelets, rings and other jew eIIY into the collection baskets
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An Illinois farmer, whose horses had the glanders and were killed recently, died short time ago from blood-poison- ing, which was undoubtedly caused by contact with the diseased animals whom he cared for. The glanders is so dan gerous and hopeless disease that when horse is attacked by it he should be put out of the way at once. It is one of few the animal diseases liable to be con- municated to human beings, and where ever it prevails it should be stamped out as quickly as possible.
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Meaning of 'sSublime Porte,"

A phrase often seen in despatches from Constantinople is thus explained by M. Julliard in his article on Life Beneath the Crescent" in the Cosmopolitan:
 The building of the porte, called sub- lime, is, or was, kind of long, low barracks, without style and without beauty. A fire destroyed part of it three years ago.
 The phrase ''sublime porte" applied to both the building and the admins tration, two things that are important, but neither the one nor the other is sublime. This word has, however, a very ancient origin. When the Turks, long before the conquest, were only hordes of Tar tars and nomads, tbeir chiefs or sultans were in the habit of dispensing justice at the door of their tent. There the cadis assembled and heard the con- p.aint and then the defense. The sultan appeared upon the spot only at the con clusion of the trial to get the opinions of the judges and to render his decision. To go to the porte was for the Turks the equivalent of seeking justice at the hands of the sultan and his counselors.
 As to the pompous epithet "sublime, " coupled with this poor porte, it is one of those Oriental speeches that the fattery of the weak has bestowed voluntarily upon the tyranny of the strong. The Turkish language abounds in these qualifcatives -highness, excellence, divine, celestial, sublime--which in our day and in the West offend the dignity of those that receive them, and of those that bestow them, but which one in the East can freely bestow upon high personages without laughing or making them laugh.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
Ancient Roman Acoueducts,

The Romans know the syphon and
 its use, but in their ignorance of metal
 lurgy they were unable to use it as an economical means of crossing valleys when the volume of water was consider able. They did not use cast iron, but employed lead pipes of crude chsrac
 ter, as also clay pipes; and they knew how to prepare solder. The builders of their acqucducts had some acquaintance with the mode of lcvelling, the instru. ment they used being sort of fore. shadowing of tho modern level. Still they knew that the means they adopted might lead them into error, and they preferred to err on the safe side, giving their acqueducts great fall, from one in 500 to one in 750.-[Chicago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23

Notwithstanding the stubborn opposi- ton which all great innovations in the customs of the people are bound to meet, cremation is making progress in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. In France the prevail ing sentimen. is in favor of making ere. nation not obligatory, but optional ac- cording to the will of the person least interested, viz, the deceased. In Ger many the active urgers of cremation are comparatively few, as they arc in the United States.
Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
Or and On.

"Why do you desire to leave me2" said gentleman to his footnan.
 'Because, to speak the truth, cannot bear your ttm per-"
 ''To be sure am passionate, but my passion is no sooner on than it's off.
 'Yes," replied the servant. But it's ne seoplr o3 than it's Qn."
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A Forerunner of Disaster.

A bright looking young woman in ono of the fashionable dry goods stores told me she never, if sho could possibly help it, sells an article to a person who. had lost front tooth, as it is always a fore runner of disaster to her. II always get some of tho other girls who ara not superstitious to wait on such people, y she said. d.-rChicago Journal.